Trump’s plan to make DC safe again is working; ICE rescues 27 from human trafficking ring run by illegal aliens; Illinois mandates “mental health” testing of ALL children; Trump calls for release of Tina Peters; UK national flag being ripped down on official orders; Pope set to visit Lebanon’s 3.5-million Maronite Catholics; Pope calls for worldwide day of fasting and prayer for peace on Aug 22; and more —
California Supreme Court Gives Gavin Newsom Green Light to Gerrymander
The California Supreme Court, dominated six-to-one by Democratic appointees, rejected a Republican challenge to the legality of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) attempt to redraw the state’s congressional districts Wednesday. …
Newsom and the state legislature will now pass the new, partisan map, and send it to the voters for approval in a special election in November that will cost upwards of $200 million. The new map will set aside the non-partisan map achieved through an “independent” redistricting process mandated by voters in 2008. Newsom says that he is retaliating against Texas for redrawing its map this week to benefit Republicans.
Read more at Breitbart
Trump Issues Ultimatum: California Schools Must Follow Transgender Policies Or Face Consequences
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to strip federal funding from California school districts that defy his administration’s transgender policies.
The Trump administration interprets Title IX as requiring schools to maintain separate bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams for males and females, a stance that directly conflicts with California state law allowing students to use facilities and join teams based on gender identity.
Read more at the Daily Wire
Texas House advances new congressional map
The Texas House formally voted to advance a bill that redraws the state’s congressional map. It would pave the way for Texans to elect more Republicans to Congress.
Watch at KVUE
JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller Visit National Guard at DC’s Union station
Vice President JD Vance, flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, visited Washington, DC’s Union Station on Wednesday to meet and have lunch with National Guard troops who are stationed at the transit hub.
Protesters could be heard screaming inside the station, heckling and chanting “Free DC!”
Stephen Miller shredded the protesters, telling reporters, “Most of the citizens who live in Washington, DC, are black. This is not a city that has had any safety for its black citizens for generations, and President Trump is the one who is fixing that with the support of the Metropolitan Police Department, the support of the National Guard, and our federal law enforcement officers.”
Read more at the Gateway Pundit
Liberals supporting DC crime just got biggest blow yet — Trump’s plan is working …
Well, today is a bad day if you’re a liberal who loves to defend crime in DC.
The Trump Derangement Syndrome is so off the charts in Washington, DC, that liberals are literally siding with criminals just to oppose President Trump. That’s how broken their spirits, morality, and politics are. They would rather see robbery, carjackings, and violent crime run rampant than admit Trump’s law-and-order plan is working.
But it is working, and that’s a very big problem for the Dems.
Read more at the revolver
‘New-found Law and Order in DC‘
As A Former DC Cop, I Can Tell You The Federal Takeover Was The Right Move
As a former Washington, D.C. cop who has responded to countless homicides and other crime scenes during midnight shifts, the current federal takeover of the capital city is a welcome sight.
The story of D.C. is a depressing one, comprised of violent, crime-ridden neighborhoods marked by the highest degree of human despair, in which many people fear leaving the confines of their homes to avoid becoming a crime victim. Yet, these are also communities filled to the brim with countless good and hard-working people. They, like me, welcome the federal government’s intervention via federal law enforcement officers and the D.C. National Guard.
Read more at The Federalist
Trump Calls for Release of “Tortured” Former County Election Clerk
President Trump called for the release of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters on Thursday amid her ongoing persecution for exposing Democrats’ election fraud in the state of Colorado.
“If she is not released, I am going to take harsh measures!!!” Trump said in an apparent warning shot to Democrat Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold.
Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison last October after she was accused of breaching the Mesa County election systems and leaking Dominion voting machine passwords.
But Peters contends that her office had the Dominion machine passwords, which is what Maricopa County successfully argued when they were subpoenaed for Dominion passwords during the Arizona Election audit in 2021.
Read more at the Gateway Pundit
Tulsi Gabbard Revamps ODNI, Reducing Agency By Almost 50%, Saving Taxpayers Over $700 Million
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will announce Wednesday afternoon that she is refocusing her agency to aggressively execute its national security mission, shrinking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence nearly 50% and saving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
Gabbard described the changes as “ODNI 2.0,” in a statement on Wednesday, calling the shift “the start of a new era focused on serving our country, fulfilling our core national security mission with excellence, always grounded in the U.S. Constitution, and ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.”
Read more at the Daily Wire
POLL: Trump’s Popularity Soaring Amid Historic Progress on Economy, Peace
A new InsiderAdvantage poll out this week shows President Donald Trump’s approval rating soaring following a productive summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week and more good news on the economic front.
According to the survey of 1,000 likely voters conducted from August 15-17, 54 percent approve of Trump’s job performance, while 43.6 percent disapprove. Trump’s +10 net positive approval rating is a significant increase from his +2 net approval rating in InsiderAdvantage’s previous poll in July. …
Read more at Amac
Illinois Mandates “Mental Health” Testing of ALL Children
The Land of Lincoln is creating a cash cow for Big Pharma & psychiatry through forced annual “mental health” testing for all public school students. Of course, children will suffer as a result.
Children’s minds are now officially in the crosshairs of one of the most out-of-control state governments in America. Under a controversial new measure just signed into law by far-left Governor J.B. Pritzker, government schools in Illinois will begin mandatory “mental health” testing of all students each year, starting in 3rd grade.
Critics are sounding the alarm. Among other concerns, they are warning that Big Brother cannot be trusted to pry into the minds of children.
Read more at The Liberty Sentinel
Trump Defunds School Arranging Secret Abortions
A Virginia school district where a high school took teenage girls for secret abortions will lose taxpayer funding thanks to the Trump administration.
The Department of Education (DOE) plans to cut federal funding from five Northern Virginia school districts. Although the decision comes after they refused to change policies allowing boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms, the defunding includes the district that facilitated the secret abortions. Officials at Fairfax County’s Centerville High School arranged and bankrolled abortions for girls without so much as a phone call to their parents back in 2021.
Read more at LifeNews.com
The American Academy Of Pediatrics Keeps Proving Itself To Be An Anti-Science Cult
If you thought the left-wing American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) couldn’t do any more to discredit itself as a legitimate medical organization, think again.
On Tuesday, the nation’s largest pediatrics association revealed that it is bucking guidance from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by recommending Covid shots for infants and young children. The advisement was included in the AAP’s newly released immunization schedule for all children under the age of 18.
Read more at The Federalist
ICE rescues 27 [including children] from human trafficking ring run by illegal aliens
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents recently rescued 27 victims, including 10 children, from a human trafficking ring run by five illegal aliens in Omaha.
According to a Department of Homeland Security news release, the dismantling of the ring, which was being run out of motels and eyebrow salons, occurred Aug. 12. DHS said the victims “were crammed into cockroach infested rooms and trapped in squalor with no basic sanitation or safety” …
In addition to rescuing the victims, ICE agents seized over $545,000 in cash and illicit drugs.
Read more at Catholic Vote
China: Laboratory claims to be on the verge of launching robots with uteruses to give birth to babies
In China, a biotechnology firm claims it is on the verge of marketing […] machines, designed to carry human embryos from conception to delivery. …
Dr. Zhang Qifeng, founder of Kaiwa Technology, has described the project as “mature” and commercially ready, with prototypes expected to sell for around US$14,000 in the coming year. The device would function as an artificial uterus, supplying nutrients to the developing fetus through a tube and surrounding it with synthetic amniotic fluid.
According to Zhang, the long-term vision is for these systems to be implanted in robotic bodies, enabling “interaction” between the machine and the human parent throughout gestation.
Read more at Zenit
Ontario police charge a man for defending his home against an intruder.
Canada faces a crime wave. Serial criminals threaten neighborhoods, yet a homeowner defending his property is charged. Police say that the suspect was asleep when he awoke to find an intruder inside his apartment.
Watch at Rebel News; read also CP24.com
How councils tearing down England [St. George’s] flags has sparked backlash across the country
Even a few short years ago, the prospect of the national flag being ripped down on official orders would have been unthinkable.
Yet, that’s exactly what is happening in our two biggest cities, London and Birmingham.
Yesterday, as our pictures show, came the extraordinary spectacle of council workers using extendable shears to remove St George’s Cross flags from lamp posts in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets.
Read more at the Daily Mail
Cardinal Zuppi leads seven-hour prayer, naming every child killed in Holy Land war
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, led a prayer vigil on Thursday, on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption, where he read the name of every child who has died in the conflict between Israel and Hamas since the start of the war in the Holy Land two years ago.
“We pronounce their names one by one,” Zuppi said at the start of the vigil. “They ask us all to commit ourselves to finding or pursuing the path to peace with greater intelligence and passion, starting with a ceasefire and offering the conditions for doing so, from the release of hostages to not taking an entire people hostage.”
Read more at Sight Magazine; see also @Catholic Arena on X
[Catholic] Judge Frank Caprio passes away after health setback
Judge Frank Caprio, affectionately known as “the nicest judge in the world,” has passed away after battling pancreatic cancer. What set him apart from other judges was he inspired millions with his compassionate approach to justice.
He became a surprise internet star in his 80s, as videos from his courtroom show Caught in Providence amassed billions of views and over 20 million followers on social media. Fans around the globe fell in love with his wisdom, humor, and mercy in handling everyday people’s cases.
After nearly four decades on the bench, the 88-year-old Rhode Island judge retired in 2023 to spend time with his family. Yet even in retirement, Judge Caprio continued to touch lives – and just this morning, he touched hearts again by sharing a personal trial with remarkable faith and humility.
Read more at Aleteia
Hungary celebrates 1250 years of Christianity on Feast of St. Stephen. Below is video of Huge drone cross over the Danube in Budapest accompanied by the Hungarian National Anthem.
Watch @Catholic Arena on X; see also @Hungary in the EU on X
Pope Leo to visit Lebanon, cardinal says, in likely first trip abroad
Pope Leo plans to visit Lebanon, the country’s senior Catholic official announced on Wednesday, in what could be the first visit outside Italy by the new leader of the global Church.
The pope will travel to Lebanon “by December”, Cardinal Bechara Rai told the al-Arabiya television channel.
Rai, leader of the 3.5-million-member Maronite Catholic Church, did not give a specific date for the visit but said “preparations are already underway”.
Read more at Reuters
Pope Leo XIV urging the faithful to keep August 22 as a day of prayer and fasting for peace
See @Father V on X
